The Russellville Democrat., 1887-01-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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 Il thrown into we'll.
 | James D. Kearney an euaploye of tn
 Baltimore Custom-house, suicided We lnef
 day. He was aged As, was maTied and hal
 four children.
 Clara, a little daughter of Alex. Ham
 ilton, wealthy farmer of Bellaire, O., wa
 fatally frozen during 8 sohnambulisti
 tour Monday night.
 -C. 5. Buck and son Herman of Sturgie
 Mich. and Mir. Davls, whom they wer
 visiting in Dakota, were frozen in the recen
 blizzard.
 "A steamboat owner named Stacy wa
 killed in self-defense while drunk, by Joh c. Jackson, at Woodburn Landing, nea
 Vicksburg Saturday.
 -E. T. Barnes of vincennes. Ind, frog
 to death Sunday night near Chanlois. H'
 was under the influence of liquor. IF lf1s.ason, being discharged iron the c. road at St..e.-ss seph, got mad ant took arsenic. His funera1 wsas largely at tended Monday.
 ---J. s. Forshay, living near Mexico, ha gone deranged. He is a farmer, and hasa wife and seven children. Jack Hayes. the murderer oi Philip Mueller. in St. Louis in August, 1881, will hang. The President refuses to do any thing for the condemned man. Hayes was a bully and thumper, and killed his man without cause.
 The LuDg-Strauss chemical works at St. Louis burned Monday and six men lost their lives. The men were all firemen. There were five men in the room at the time Assistant Chief John Barry, Dan Moy- hanan, Godfrey Werges, Michael Yates and William Ward.
 Marshall people are iubilant over the invasion of the Missouri Pacific into that town.
 --Woanded Knee is the name of a new postofiice in Shannon county, Dakota. No eastern mail was received atWater town, D. T., for three days, owing to q Minnesota sncw blockade. --One of two valuable dogs belonging to Charles Galligan of Paw Paw, Mich, took sick and it's owner gave it apill. Mr. Cali. gan also gave the other dog a pill to keep it from getting sick. Both animals died within ten minutes --The Beaver Creek CD. T.) Graphic says: "Over at Rock Rapids a drunken fellow was taken before drunken judge to answer for the crime of trying to chaw up another drunken fellow. In course of the trial one Of the attorneys told the judge to go to- nnewhere-whereupo the judge fined the legal light for contempt of the court then damned him over the head with a dressed turkey. After the lamming the judge ad. journed the court for day or two ill order to give all parties q chance to sober up-' Seven persons nave been arrested in Knox county, Kentucky, in connection with the murder of the Poe family in Oc. tober last.
 Governors were naugurated as follows Tuesday: Beaver of Pennsylvania, Green of New Jersey, Riggs of Delaware and Ross of Texas.
 Griffin have beenexhumed Tor examination, owing to suspicion that he was poisoned by his wife.
 Texas Knights of Labor, assembled in annual session at Austin, adopted resolu. tions denying that they were there in the interest of any political candidate. Geo. W. Weber, book maker, Chicago, has failed $75, 1000. Mary E. Kennedy, aged s3, died at Vandalia on Friday. Louis F. Dohmstreick. prominent
  sleigh Saturday and killed. Two men named Quinn and Donovan were killed in a snow slide Saturday at | Sheridan mine, California. --Sileck S. Seafield is in jail in Brooklyn | charged with bigamy. Three wives are par. ties to the complaint. Mack Clark, aged B5, stabbed Jesse | Smith, aged 25, through the brain with a knife at Chattanooga, Tenn, yesterday. | Both men were carpenters, and quarreled | about debt.
 Senator Vance called on the President | Saturday, the first timein nearly two years. 1 His object was to protest against the pres | ent method oi executing the internal rev enue laws.
 l At $130,000 fire occurred at Denver Sat | urday, beginning in the queensware store ol | R. Douglass & Co. and extending to Knight | & Almon. clothers; J. Durbin, surgical in | struments; J. c. Fitzpatrick, furniture, and Wadsworth & Sons, Minning Review. | The Executive Committee of the Coast ] Defense Association of the coast cities oi | the South issued call. setting forth the de | ienceless condition of the cities and inviting ! the President and military officers to a con | yention to be held at DeFuniak Springs, l Fla, February s, to consider the best plan | of protection.
 l Malignant measles are on the increase | in New York. Saturdays report showed | 841 cases and seventy-two deaths for ths week.
 "A fire in the store-nouses of the Frank fort (Ky) Penitentiary Saturday night damaged the stock $50, ,000 and the build | ing $50. 900 worth
 Frank Mccain was sentenced Saturday | to twenty-one years Imprisonment for ths ! murder of an unknown eolored man last l July in Evansville, Ind.
 John Jackson killed George Fuchs, a 1 anch man at Dol Norte, Cal, by breaking 1 billiard.cue over his head and Iamming the broken end down his throat.
 In the general lighthouse bill $40. 900 is l appropriated for another boat for the Miss l issippi Light Service and $25, 1000 Tor a lighthouse supply depot at St. Louis, Rev. Steve F. Holeembe, the reformed
 gambler of Louisville, was sand bagged | Monday by three toughs. He sustained a 1 compound fracture of She leg.
 -Lueien Boucher special officer of the tt!..~ ~tr.1t4